![]() The story jumps around a number of years in the 2000s. The story focuses around a central group of characters connected by a five-star hotel on an island off the coast of British Columbia and a Ponzi scheme led by the hotel’s owner and finance guru, Jonathan Alkaitis. ![]() This type of narrative luckily brought a lot of meaning to the dialogue, otherwise I probably would not have been able to follow the sporadic style jumping back and forth between each character/year. This novel was written in the perspective of a lot of characters connected by the same events… like so many characters I stopped trying to count. “ One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid” – Emily St. But after spending some time with this one, I really liked it by the end. I’ve seen a lot of praise for this one, and some mixed reviews as well. I’ve been wanting to read this one for a while, and I finally received a copy after being on a long wait list at my local library. ![]() This has been the longest week, but I made it through with some books and some coffee! And speaking of books, this week I read The Glass Hotel by Emily St. My borrowed copy of The Glass Hotel in front of our Christmas tree ![]()
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